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Salt Lake City, Utah
Gilgal Sculpture Garden
A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.
Modena, Italy
San Cataldo Cemetery
This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.
Sint Jansklooster, Netherlands
De Wieden National Park Observation Tower
Repurposed space and ultra-modern construction collide to create this geometric wooden spectacle.
Harbin, China
Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.
Figueres, Spain
DalĂ Theatre and Museum
Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador DalĂ.
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Bosco Verticale Wins International Highrise Award
Manchester, England
Victoria Baths
These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.
Bury Saint Edmunds, England
The Nutshell Pub
The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.
New York, New York
The Weathermen Townhouse Explosion
A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.
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Krakow, Poland
Kościuszko Mound
This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.
Tucson, Arizona
Rattlesnake Bridge
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.
Crawfordsville, Indiana
Rotary Jail Museum
The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Luling Mansion
Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.
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Denver, Colorado
Blue Mustang
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Bermuda
The Unfinished Church
Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.
Syracuse, New York
Niagara Mohawk Building
This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.
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